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The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) connected Thursday (January 1, 2026) suffered a setback up of the BMC elections arsenic its lawman person Sheetal Devrukhkar-Sheth, who worked intimately with Aaditya Thackeray connected enactment initiatives, resigned from the organisation.
Announcing her determination to permission the Sena (UBT), Ms. Devrukhkar-Sheth said she would articulation the BJP soon successful the beingness of its State president Ravindra Chavan. PTI has a transcript of her resignation letter.
Elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) volition beryllium held connected January 15, and votes volition beryllium counted the adjacent day.
A elder person successful the Yuva Sena, the younker helping of Sena (UBT), Ms. Devrukhkar-Sheth was a subordinate of its halfway committee and was considered 1 of Aaditya Thackeray’s closest associates.
She is besides a subordinate of the Mumbai University senate, the varsity's apical governing body.
Sources said Ms. Devrukhkar-Sheth was asked to hole herself for the BMC elections arsenic the enactment was readying to tract her. However, she ne'er featured successful immoderate of the lists of Sena (UBT), they said.
